THIRD round day and another reminder of the symmetry of seasons. A year ago to something around the day, Liverpool FC were paired with Exeter City, also of the Football League’s nether regions. It remains an eternal shame that this once great cup competition, and its...
BY God, we needed that on Wednesday. Up the Spurs. When I got in from work shortly before 8pm, my missus — who for different reasons to me carries the same detailed Liverpool FC fixture list around in her head – expected some tea together, a chat about our...
SUNDERLAND was a tough one. Character required. I wanted nothing more than a nice day under the duvet watching films with my wife before we all went back to work. An alarm that said six something wasn’t exactly what I needed. I got up at 3:30pm after Manchester...
THESE days, there seems to be a common tendency to want something to go a certain way just so people can say they were right, even if it has a negative impact elsewhere. Anybody waiting to be proven right ‘when’ Liverpool ‘inevitably’ miss out on the league title, for...
THEY say January is the most depressing of the months. Understandable. You’re on the come down after Christmas and New Year frivolities, it’s cold, it’s dark, and it’s several months before you can look forward to summer holidays. In 2001, from out of nowhere, January...
HAS everyone calmed down yet? It was heavy that, wasn’t it? It was always going to be a graft that game. Sunderland away, in the freezing cold, about half an hour after the Manchester City game finished, against a manager who is so negative in everything he does he...
IT’S the January transfer window and Liverpool are in great position to crack on and have a real push at the league title. As it’s January 4, it’s safe to assume that given we haven’t already signed anyone, there isn’t going to be any new signings in the next few...
WE were walking around him. Literally, walking around him. On a small corridor, somewhere in Anfield, sometime in the mid-1990s. We’d been bused down from Cumbria as part of an Alan Kennedy Soccer School. He was moving cardboard boxes, writes JONATHAN TODD. “Ron...
IT’S hard work this, isn’t it? When I was greeted by family at a New Year’s Eve party after the Manchester City game with the question “did you enjoy that?”, I responded with an emphatic “I’m absolutely knackered”. I said the same after spending a full five minutes...
IT’S beyond ludicrous to be playing two games in less than 48 hours. It was the same for both sides, yes — regardless, it makes no sense whatsoever. Chelsea, on the other hand, have been given an extra two days off. It’s difficult to overstate the...
Podcast explaining the theory behind the statistics used in football, looking at Wolves, shot data and the wider picture from Matchday 18.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Josh Williams.
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